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1. While we agree with the doctrines of the WCF, we do not always agree with how those doctrines are supported with the Scripture proof texts which the Westminster Divines cited.
 
 
Chapter I
  Of the Holy Scripture  


2. Para. 2 We are unwilling to be dogmatic as to the Pauline authorship of the book of Hebrews.
3. Para. 8. We believe that the original languages to be consulted in the matters of controversy are Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic.

 

Chapter VII
  Of God's Covenant with Man  


4. Para 2 (cf. Chp. 19, para. 1, 6). While we agree with the original intent of the Westminster Divines, we believe the usage of the phrase "covenant of works" is open to misinterpretation by modern Christians. By way of clarification, we deny that any covenant can be kept without faith, and we affirm that good works flow out of faith in God, and not vice versa.

 

Chapter XXI
  Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath-day  


5. Para. 8. We believe that along with works of piety, necessity, and mercy, the command also calls us to rest physically on the Sabbath (Gen. 2:2-3; Ex. 16:30; 31:15-17).

 

Chapter XXIII
  Of the Civil Magistrate  


6. Para. 3 -- Delete the last phrase, beginning with "to provide that whatsoever..."

 

Chapter XXIV
  Of Marriage and Divorce  


7. Para 4: Delete the last sentence, which reads, "The man may not marry any of his wife's kindred, nearer in blood than he may of his own: nor the woman of her husband's kindred, nearer in blood than of her own."

 

Chapter XXV
  Of the Church  


8. Para. 6. Though we believe the Pope of Rome to be anti-Christian, we do not believe him necessarily to be the anti-Christ.

 

Chapter XXVII
  Of the Sacraments  


9. Para. 4. We believe that the Lord's Supper should not be administered without the oversight of an elder, lawfully ordained.

 

Chapter XXVIII
  Of Baptism  


10. Para. 3. We believe that the proper modes of baptism include sprinkling, pouring, and immersion.
11. Para. 4. Being a church composed of both paedobaptists and those holding to believer's baptism, we expressly allow men otherwise qualified to serve as elders, but who hold to believer's baptism, to make an exception to WCF Chapter XXVIII, paragraph 4, which reads: "Not only those that do actually profess faith in and obedience unto Christ, but also the infants of one, or both, believing parents, are to be baptized."

 

 
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